parchmentedadj.

1877 London Q. Rev. Jan. 419 No uniform and universal self-imposed tribute of support in kind became naturally, and by an authority of common consent more efficacious and authoritative than any parchmented statute, the common law of the settlement.

1953 E. F. Jacob Ess. Conciliar Epoch v. 105 The case for and against the papacy has become so stereotyped, the accumulation of thesis one way or the other so vast, that one wonders whether the true spirit of secular or of ecclesiastical government has not vanished in this bloodless parchmented combat.

1893 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Parchmented,..applied to a hard, tough condition of the skin in certain diseases.

1907 Macmillan's Mag. July 7/8 I took note of his parchmented skin, of his loose collar and shabby clothes.

1993 Press Assoc. (Nexis) 16 Nov. (Home News) Any pre-existing burn marks had been obliterated apart from an area of parchmented—that is to say dry and cracking skin—just over the bridge of her nose.

1913 W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity (new ed.) 22 Mendel..regarded the parchmented type [of pea] as a dominant.

1942 Amer. Naturalist 76 197 Rare variations are changes in flower color from non-anthocyanin to anthocyanin, tendrilled to non-tendrilled..non-parchmented pods from parchmented, and evergreen or persistent foliage from deciduous or vice-versa.

2000 Denver Westword (Nexis) 21 Sept. (Food section) I slopped a few circles onto the prepared and parchmented cake pan..and popped them into the oven.